<p>@ skylimits
You are missing the entire POINT.</p>
<p>It said “RARELY expansive”
understand??? That means they were SHORT.</p>
<p>So. X = Short … Y , on the contrary must equal something NOT SHORT </p>
<p>everyone knows what laconic means -.-’</p>
<p>You are changing your perception of a clearly correct answer. Stop it. Histripnic is clearly wrong, no matter the interpretation and cohesive has nothing to do with expansiveness either. You are completely wrong. You need to give me a reason why these are right! Accept it: laconic is correct.</p>
<p>Okay dude. It can be cohesive if you want it to be.
But I doubt the College Board will agree with you.</p>
<p>I’m not going to justify my answer choice because I personally believe I got it wrong.
The only point I am trying to make here is that most of you guys are ignoring the important key words that change the tone of the sentence. Also, you are logically considering parallels instead of opposites. </p>
<p>In the end, what frustrates me about all of your posts is that they jump to conclusions that seem a little bit too damned easy. the word “Rarely” basically switches the entire tone. IF it had not been there, you guys are completely right. But otherwise, the case is still left wide open.</p>
<p>I never tried to argue a point that my answer choice was right.
I’m trying to show you how you are ignoring certain aspects.
This is too similar to plato’s socratic dialogues.
Too similar.</p>
<p>who cares anyways. it seems as if you want to say
“Yes. I am correct. Therefore I am better than you. College board agrees with me that I am correct and that you are WRONG.”
Well then, my dear sir, **** you. Because I don’t care if I got it right or wrong. Ultimately, I only care about What is the right answer. </p>
<p>You imbeciles. Adieu.</p>
<p>I think you are misunderstanding the sentence dude. I know it was laconic. You are recalling the sentence incorrectly. The remaining answer choices bolster that. That question is a HUGE problem if your understanding is correct. Histrionic and cohesive are both clearly inadequate. You are recalling this sentence wrong.</p>
<p>You guys need to chill instead of forcing your answers down each others throats. If you look back at past may threads, some people who thought they were definately right were wrong when looking back at the qas. So with that in mind just because someone says its right doesnt mean it is 100%.</p>
<p>So the answers for that were</p>
<p>laconic - brief, short, terse
extemporaneous - spoken without notes
histrionic - overly dramatic
cohesive - strongly connected, lgoical</p>
<p>Chill your nuts out people!! It’s only one question…</p>
<p>^haha thats what im saying</p>
<p>@caulfield
I see what you’re saying, but that logic won’t work in this instance.
On the contrary does not refer to the entire term “rarely expansive” it only refers to the word “expansive”.</p>
<p>“My mom was hardly nice — on the contrary, she was extremely mean.”</p>
<p>Seems alright to me :D</p>
<p>I don’t think laconic was the right answers since the question was look for a word that contrasted “expansive” by including rarely in the sentence :). I put histrionic :(</p>
<p>laconic is the mirror opposite of expansive.</p>
<p>lmao, I don’t understand why people just can’t google the definitions. I don’t want to be mean, but we shouldnt devote page long discussions for something you can find in a minute.</p>
<p>I want to join the fight! 
If it was RARELY expansive then that must mean an astronaut, someone who is clearly passionate about space did not put his feelings in a short succinct message! Therfore, in his report, he did the opposite by pouring out his feelings in an overly dramatic message.
/end_delustion</p>
<p>But seriously , some of you are overreacting . Brb. I am going to give my cat a bath.</p>
<p>I actually think the word in question was ‘hardly’… As in “the astronauts’ report was hardly expansive”… Oh well. I’m sad that the vocab was so much harder than what I expected. The Blue Book vocab was not so difficult. Or maybe I need to study more -.-</p>
<p>@michael2013
Finally someone who can rationalize. Thank you for explaining in a clear and precise manner. This makes sense to me. Now I see how laconic works.
But still, it’s pretty vague because it still Possibly could be referring to the entire two-word term. Oh well.</p>
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<p>usa sat 10char</p>